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I am a metadata specialist at Penn State Outreach. I work with WPSU and World Campus to better manage the digital assets that each group produces (e.g. materials connected to a video production or a course). We work to find ways of tagging assets so that they can be found internally (e.g. finding a clip of the Nittany Lion in Spring) and externally (helping people find video and other content when they visit http://ondemand.psu.edu or other departmental websites).

Twitter ID: cecem Email: cbm12@psu.edu Phone: 814-867-1238 Office Hours: I'm happy to answer questions at other times as you are experimenting with these new technologies.

A few Web 2.0 tools that I use:

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I recently bought a mini notebook that I use at home and when traveling to access the web (10" screen, 3lbs). I'm trying to figure out how much data I can and want to store "in the clouds" and how to sync up my data across computers. I am experimenting with:

tools that let me access data even if I don't have an internet connection - GoogleGears - lets you have local copies of gmail, google docs, google calendar, to do lists via remember the milk, etc. on your computer